R2OK! Forum Index R2OK!
Contact R2OK! admin

Click here for R2OK! Website


 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

Feeling picky today!

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    R2OK! Forum Index -> Coffee Bar
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Minx



Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 4088
Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:49 pm    Post subject: Feeling picky today! Reply with quote

Elaine Page is yet another broadcaster who can't pronounce the word sixth. She joins most of the F1 TV presentation team, Steve Wright team and a whole host of BBC newsreaders who say "sikth" and not "siksth". Or was I brung up wrong????

Not to mention the burgeoning by-product of our schools, colleges and universities who are "bored of" rather than "bored with" or who "would of" been better equipped for employment opportunities if they "would have" listened to their english language teachers.

Right, now for a long lie down in a darkened room I think Embarassed
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Minx



Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 4088
Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there some kind of auto correct going on here? My first "would have" was typed in the more commonly used format of today, ie "oh eff".

Oh eff it anyway. Laughing
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
John W



Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 3367
Location: Warwickshire, UK

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Minx,

Yes there IS an auto-correct word-replacement here that changes would o f to would have, it was to stop people relentlessly picking on marc O, and to help him learn to write the phrase properly Rolling Eyes

Sixth sikth siksth ... well there are variants of everything. For first some will furst, for third some will thurd, for film some will say filum, tomato tom-a-to let's ca.... let's have a pedantry thread like they have at r3ok! Laughing
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
SantaFefan



Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 11258
Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, there is. JW mentioned it in an attempt to correct Mark O's errors! Laughing
Can't say I've noticed the sixth problem though... I shall listen even more enthusiastically to Steve Wright's show. Wink
_________________
Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! Very Happy 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address
Helen May



Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19372
Location: Cheshire

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Minx,

It annoys me when I hear Sikth for Sixth as well. Can't single out anyone in particular, but now that you mention SW, I believe he is one of the culprits!

H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Shaky Fan



Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 628

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Yes, there is. JW mentioned it in an attempt to correct Mark O's errors! Laughing


Now all they have to work on is autocorrecting the copy & paste posts! Laughing
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
John W



Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 3367
Location: Warwickshire, UK

PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shaky Fan wrote:
SantaFefan wrote:
Yes, there is. JW mentioned it in an attempt to correct Mark O's errors! Laughing


Now all they have to work on is autocorrecting the copy & paste posts! Laughing


Yeah tell me Rolling Eyes I fixed a few yesterday Wink
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    R2OK! Forum Index -> Coffee Bar All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB © phpBB Group. Hosted by phpBB.BizHat.com